relâcher
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,542
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
relâcher is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire qu’une chose soit moins tendue. Pronounced \ʁə.lɑ.ʃe\. Often confused with relayer and relaxer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relâcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.lɑ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for relâcher is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.lɑ.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,542 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for relâcher, with forms such as "erlâcher", "relacher", and "relcâher". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "relayer", "relaxer", "relater", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is relâcher, spelled R-E-L-Â-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire qu’une chose soit moins tendue.
- 2Purger légèrement.
- 3Laisser aller, en parlant d’un prisonnier, de quelqu’un qu’on retenait malgré lui et à qui on rend la liberté.
- 4Céder, abandonner quelque chose de ses droits, de ses prétentions, de ses intérêts.
- 5Diminuer, rabattre de sa première exactitude, de son zèle initial.
- 6S’arrêter, en quelque endroit.
- 7S’adoucir, en parlant du temps.
- 8Se détendre, se délasser, se reposer.
- 9Rabattre de sa première ardeur, de sa première exactitude.
- 10Se laisser aller.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erlâcher,relacher,relcâher,rellâcher,relâccher,relâcehr,relâcherr,relâchher,relâchre,relâhcer,reâlcher,rleâcher,rrelâcher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for relâcher
Misspelling Variants of "relâcher"
Frequency rank: #17,542 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "relâcher"?
What does "relâcher" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "relâcher"?
How do you pronounce "relâcher"?
What language does "relâcher" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: